Apple has received a slew of new patents, including one for its fingerprint sensor technology. The fingerprint scanner patent was one of 40 granted to Apple last week. It allows the company to build sensors into the bezel structure, making it possibl...

Apple's iPhone 5S boasts a Touch ID fingerprint scanner that uses the ridges and pores of a finger (or other body parts, including nipples and lips) to identify a phone's user and unlock the home screen. While some felt the technology was state-of-th...

HTC made the extra-large version of its flagship One smartphone, the HTC One max, official earlier this morning. I got a little hands-on time with the max and its enormous screen, fingerprint scanner and new software, which improves upon the experien...

When the iPhone 5S was announced, Apple boasted a new state-of-the-art security feature: the Touch ID fingerprint scanner. Within days, customers discovered that other body parts -- including lips and nipples -- could be used to unlock the iPhone's h...

On Sunday, the Berlin-based Chaos Computer Club announced that one of its members, nicknamed Starbug, had successfully hacked the new Apple Touch ID fingerprint scanner. An unofficial fingerprint scanner hacking contest, IsTouchIDHackedYet, launched ...

The hacker Starbug has been declared the winner of the unofficial crowdsourced contest to foil Apple's Touch ID fingerprint scanner. Starbug, whose real name and identity have not been revealed, is a member of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), a Berlin-...

Just days after making the iPhone 5S available to the public, a group of hackers claimed that they already broke the phone's Touch ID fingerprint scanner. The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), a Berlin-based group of hackers, announced the successful hack o...

If you are first to hack the new iPhone 5S Touch ID fingerprint scanner you could win over $13,000, more than $800 worth of Bitcoin, a pornographic book, and a few bottles of wine, tequila, bourbon and whiskey. That's the total reward -- which keeps ...

Last week, Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S' Touch ID fingerprint scanner , which serves as the phone's new unlock feature. While some marveled at this revolution in mobile security, others found the Touch ID to be quite similar to criminal fingerprintin...

We now know a bit more about the fingerprint scanner on Apple's new iPhone 5S, specifically how it deals with security. Even though you can use the fingerprint scanner to unlock your phone and make iTunes purchases, you’ll still need to create a trad...

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